Rabindranath Thakur on Bharat in his essay 'The History Of Bharatvarsha':
"Our real ties are with the Bharatvarsha that lies outside our textbooks. If the history of this tie for a substantially long period gets lost, our soul loses its anchorage. After all, we are no weeds.....
"Our real ties are with the Bharatvarsha that lies outside our textbooks. If the history of this tie for a substantially long period gets lost, our soul loses its anchorage. After all, we are no weeds.....
or parasitical plants in India. Over many hundreds of years, it's our roots, hundreds and thousands of them, that have occupied the very heart of Bharatvarsha. But unfortunately, we are obliged to learn a brand of history that makes our children forget this very fact......
It appears as if we are nobody in India; as if those who came from outside alone matters."
No better description.
#decolonize #HistoryMatters
No better description.
#decolonize #HistoryMatters
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